Seattle crawlspaces, moss-covered roofs and heat waves each book a different trade in a different month.
A Seattle trade business only makes money on jobs the van can reach. HeyLead runs SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and landing pages for HVAC, plumbing, pest control and restoration firms. Emergency calls and planned jobs get separate offers, and the suburbs match where your vans really go. Every call and form is followed to a booked job and reported in dollars. The free audit comes first.
This is local marketing for trades in Seattle. For how local SEO, ads and websites fit together across the US, see local marketing for businesses.
What we do
SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and landing pages, all set against the suburbs your vans can reach. Call and form tracking runs behind every one.
Pages and listings that appear when people nearby search Google for what you do.
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Paid search ads that reach people searching right now, reported against the calls and bookings they produce.
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Facebook and Instagram ads for offers that need reach, including ads shown again to people who visited your site.
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Pages built to turn a visit into a call, form or booking.
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Call and form tracking, so you can see which ad or search produced each lead.
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Optional link to your customer system, so signed work flows back into your reports.
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Who we work with
HVAC and heat pump installers on the Eastside who want planned replacement jobs as well as emergency repair calls.
Plumbing companies covering Seattle proper and the Eastside that cannot chase a burst pipe in Everett with the van in Bellevue.
Pest control firms selling seasonal plans, from spring ants to fall rodents, across Kirkland, Tacoma and the suburbs.
Restoration contractors who need storm and burst-pipe calls answered fast in the suburbs they can reach within the hour.
The local picture
Your market
Seattle trade work follows the weather and the age of the homes. Mild, wet winters bring roof moss, clogged gutters, damp crawlspaces and failed water heaters. Many older homes have no air conditioning, so summer heat waves send owners looking for heat pumps and ductless systems.
In fall, rodents move indoors. The housing adds its own jobs. Lake cottages mean old plumbing and drainage, hillside condos mean shutoff and access rules, and newer Eastside suburban homes mean modern systems and larger replacements.
Distance is the other limit. A van in Bellevue can be an hour or more from Tacoma at the wrong time of day. Washington contractor licenses belong to your firm, and HeyLead does not hold one.
Your customers
Customers search on two clocks. Urgent searches such as burst pipe Redmond, no heat Bellevue or water heater leaking Kirkland need a phone answered now and a page with the number at the top.
Planned searches such as heat pump install Seattle, repipe cost or a pest control plan come from people who compare options, read reviews and often fill in a form. We run these as separate campaigns with separate pages.
DIY searches, job seekers and people outside your area stay out. A good lead is a homeowner in a suburb you staff. Reports count booked jobs and installs by suburb, in dollars, not calls alone.
Our approach
We begin with the vans: which suburbs each one can reach and what hours the phone is answered.
Google Ads then runs emergency and planned campaigns, with click-to-call buttons, ads that only show when someone can answer, and Google Local Services Ads (the pay-per-lead ads at the top of search) where your trade qualifies.
SEO builds a page for each trade and suburb, and your Google Maps listing is set up with the right categories for each service. Meta ads reach people who looked at a replacement quote page and drifted away.
Each offer has its own landing page with your Washington contractor license line, customer reviews and job photos. Tracking counts calls of real length and forms that become booked jobs, so you can see which suburbs earn their budget.
About the area
lake cottages, hillside condos, and Eastside tech suburban stock
Licenses you show on your page
Washington contractor licenses
Common mistakes
A van staged in Bellevue cannot finish an Everett job before close and still be back for the morning call. Paying for that click wastes budget and annoys the customer. Leave out suburbs your schedule cannot hold, and add them when it can.
A homeowner with a dead furnace at night wants a person on the phone. A homeowner pricing a heat pump wants comparisons. One ad and one form for both makes it hard to tell which kind of customer you are paying for.
Directory-style pages that list every trade leave buyers unsure what you fix. A page for each trade and suburb, with its own license line and photos, turns a vague click into a specific request.
How it works
Record which suburbs each crew reaches, the hours the phone is staffed and the jobs you want more of. Everything outside that stays off the map until the schedule can carry it.
Build two campaigns and two landing pages for each trade. One leads with a phone number and hours. The other compares options and invites a quote request.
Put your Washington contractor license line, the reviews you hold and photos of your own Puget Sound jobs on the page. Customers check these before they call.
We follow calls and forms through to booked jobs, then report cost per booked job (what you pay for each job that gets booked) by suburb, in dollars. Budget moves to the places that convert.
Searches
These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.
| They search | What they want |
|---|---|
| Seattle HVAC | Urgent repair or planned replacement, split by campaign |
| Seattle plumber | Homeowner with a problem now, usually searching on a phone |
| heat pump installation Seattle | Planned install buyer comparing options before asking for a quote |
| Kirkland pest control | Suburb-level search for a seasonal plan or a one-off visit |
| Seattle water damage restoration | Emergency call that must be answered fast, within reach of the crew |
| local marketing for trades in Seattle | Owner hiring a marketing team for this type of business in this city |
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Testimonials from HeyLead clients
Our company 1800 CLEANER has worked with Martin for over two years now and we can attest he is one of the best. His technical knowledge in the SEO and online marketing space is second to none. But more importantly he cares. He listens and truly empathises with the client. The feeling of support that ensues is truly otherworldly. We have no hesitation in recommending him.
Michael Sweet
CEO, 1800 CLEANER
HeyLead helped us develop SEO ranking on key search terms for our communications marketing platform. They also helped us build, test and manage our paid SEM program. They were very responsive to our specific goals and brought subject matter expertise, saving us a lot of time and effort. They take a very practical results-oriented approach. I highly recommend their services.
Joe Charlson
CEO, CallerReady
FAQs
Answers for HVAC, plumbing, pest and restoration owners in the Seattle area who are weighing up a marketing team.
The ones where your vans are already busiest and your margin is best. That is often Bellevue or Kirkland for Eastside firms and Tacoma for South Sound firms. Add Redmond or Everett once the phones and the schedule can carry them.
No. They run as separate campaigns with separate pages, bids and hours. Emergency ads lead with a phone number and staffing hours, while planned work gets comparison content and a quote form.
Yes, if you run more than one trade. Each trade still gets its own campaigns and pages, so search terms and reports stay clean. A firm that does one trade starts there and grows the account later.
We put your Washington contractor license line on landing pages and in copy where it fits, worded exactly as issued. You send us the details, and we do not state anything you cannot document.
We track calls of real length and form submissions, tie them to booked jobs and installs, and report cost per booked job in dollars by suburb. Clicks and raw call counts are shown, but they are not the scorecard.
Access to your Google Maps listing (your Google Business Profile), your ads account and your website. We also need your contractor license details, the suburbs each van covers and how many jobs a week you can take.
No. HeyLead is an online marketing team, so there is no Seattle office or crew. Your licensed people do the work, and we make sure the right calls reach them.
Yes. This page is the local marketing program for trades in Seattle: local SEO, Google Business Profile, Google Ads, Meta Ads and conversion pages, reported to booked work. The country overview is on the local marketing hub at heylead.com/local-marketing/.